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SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.

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The political stands taken by candidates in the supervisor's race in San Bernardino are hard to unravel.
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This natural glory so close to civilization, the Santa Monica Mountains are a wonderful weirdness.
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An eccentric course of cocktails and dinners through the storied bars, restaurants, and hash houses of Los Angeles
The sale of AEG puts the future of Farmer's Field in doubt, raises questions about the transparency of city government, and demonstrates what billionaires think of the rest of us.
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Tucked away in northern Hawthorne, a small but active Tongan community flourishes like nowhere else in the Southland.
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Mitt Romney insulted a lot of people with the remarks he made about certain Americans. But why don't we talk about who he really meant?
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Donald Trump calls the San Gorgonio Pass windmills "like a sad person's version of Disneyland."
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The new science of "surfonomics" is now attempting to place a dollar value on waves, but there's no dollar amount one can put on the experience.
Considering what we see - and don't see - when we look at Los Angeles.
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Prop 32 says it will limit the money from unions and corporations to political campaigns, but only one is really affected.
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My new book was released yesterday is my eighth novel, and each time, I spend days walking around thinking of where that book began.
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The downtown stadium gets a coat of "greenwash." AEG gets a pass. And CEQA gets sacked.
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